[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN} Who to design for?

[Sean Howard]

"Tess Snider" <malkyne at gmail.com> wrote:

> Other people in your family played "The Sims."  Ergo, you were neither
> "the only gamer in your family," nor the only person who could
> evangelize "The Sims" based on hardcore involvement in that game.
> Just because they've never run around killing demons on Mars doesn't
> make them any less gamers, and it doesn't mean they're not capable of
> being hardcore.

But my family never played videogames before the Sims. Like, at all. Ever.
I think one of the requirements of being a "gamer" is that you have
"gamed" at some point. I'll admit that my sister, who always has her
laptop open and playing the Sims 2 is a hardcore Sims player (usually
while watching the Home and Garden Channel), but that doesn't make her a
hardcore gamer. More like a hardcore interior decorator.

-- 
Sean Howard